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Another controversial land deal in Suriname threatens the Amazon Rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 11 Feb 2026
Demonstrators on Feb. 8 in Santarém, Pará state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Movimento Tapajós Vivo.

Indigenous protests force Brazil to suspend Tapajós River dredging plan

Shanna Hanbury 10 Feb 2026
Tanoh Jallah, a resident of one of the towns in the IFC complaint, said all the good farmland was taken by Salala.

Community complaints in limbo as Socfin cuts ties with Earthworm Foundation

Ashoka Mukpo, Victoria Schneider 10 Feb 2026
Fresh shark meat is sold as “cação” at streeet markets in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro bans shark meat in most state schools

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2026

Animals dying in Kenya as drought conditions leave many hungry

Associated Press 9 Feb 2026
Firefighters battle a wildfire spreading through a forested area near Concepcion, Chile, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Javier Torres, File)

Tipping points and ecosystem collapse are the real geopolitical risk (commentary)

Robert Muggah 9 Feb 2026

Encouragement boosts people’s likelihood to take climate action

Bobby Bascomb 6 Feb 2026
Soil-dwelling springtails - tiny, insect-like arthropods of the class Collembola - are vulnerable to pesticides. Image by Alandmanson via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Pesticides found in 70% of European soils, harming beneficial life: Study

Liz Kimbrough 6 Feb 2026

Bolivia Indigenous communities, local gov’ts help protect nearly 1 million hectares

Maxwell Radwin 6 Feb 2026
Canada Jay in Sax-Zim Bog. Canada Jays are a quintessential northwoods bird that utilize Black Spruce and Tamarack Bogs for foraging and nesting. Image by Friends of Sax-Zim Bog (FOSZB).

Communities join global push to protect European, Arctic & US peatlands

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 5 Feb 2026
Ramon ‘Chin-Chin’ Uy Jr. is Slow Food representative for the Asia and Pacific region. Image courtesy of Slow Food.

Why is a Philippine island now the Asia Pacific center for agroecology? Interview with Ramon ‘Chin-Chin’ Uy Jr.

Keith Anthony Fabro 3 Feb 2026
A section of the Amazon rainforest stands next to soy fields in Belterra, Para state, Brazil, on Nov. 30, 2019. Image by AP Photo/Leo Correa.

Amazon deforestation may rise 30% as major traders exit historic soy pact

Fernanda Wenzel 2 Feb 2026
Fire in Humaitá, Amazonas state, Brazil in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

When nature becomes a security risk

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Feb 2026
Drained, cleared, and burned peat forest in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

The fair costs for forest rehabilitation in Indonesia (commentary)

Aida Greenbury 2 Feb 2026
A root nodule on a legume tree

‘Blew us away’: Researchers find nitrogen boost spurs faster tropical forest growth

Ruth Kamnitzer 30 Jan 2026
Açaí extraction provides income for local communities while helping to keep forests standing.

Brazil declares açaí a national fruit amid biopiracy concerns

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jan 2026
A woman uses a new cookstove in the village of Bang in the North region of Cameroon.

Cameroon cookstove project looks to slow forest loss

Leocadia Bongben 30 Jan 2026

Australia’s land-use squeeze

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jan 2026
Salam came here from North Sulawesi 10 years ago and now has a farm of 1,200 peppercorn trees.

Worries grow for Sulawesi farmers as nickel mining company plans expansion

Richard Kent 29 Jan 2026
Papuan Indigenous people and activists hold a protest against Merauke Food Estate in front of the Defense Ministry office in Jakarta in 2024.

Indonesia fast-tracks final permit for Papua rice megaproject without Indigenous consent

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Jan 2026
An olive tree and grove. Image by Dimitris Vetsikas via Pixabay.

Europe’s olive grove crisis affects nature & culture, but has solutions

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Jan 2026
The government of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state has banned shark meat for meals in most of the schools it manages, after pressure from conservationists and school meal advisers raising health and environmental concerns.

Rio de Janeiro state bans shark meat for school meals

Karla Mendes 27 Jan 2026
Food security activist Richard Rojo in his Vanuatu taro garden. Image courtesy of Monica Kidd.

Vanuatu communities move to protect taro, an ancestral climate-resilient crop (analysis)

Monica Kidd 26 Jan 2026
Rainim Purba gives a speech and attempts to climb a fence during a protest urging the ministry of environment to revoke PT DPM’s environmental permit in Jakarta, May 2025.

The long struggle of women farmers to halt a zinc mine in North Sumatra

Tonggo Simangunsong 26 Jan 2026

In Brazil, planting forests for carbon credits could help ecosystem restoration

Constance Malleret 23 Jan 2026
A man holds a chicken as he walks on log used as a makeshift bridge at a village affected by a flash flood in Batang Toru, Dec. 1.

Indonesia revokes forest and mine permits over role in deadly Sumatra landslides

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Jan 2026
Participants of Terra Madre Asia Pacific celebrate day 5 of the regional 'good food' event. Image courtesy of Slow Food.

Philippines hosts new Asia-Pacific hub for sustainable agriculture, cuisine

Keith Anthony Fabro 21 Jan 2026
Farmers on a 1.6-hectare (4-acre) plot of oranges, avocado, maize and vegetables in Kenya.

Earth Rover Program seeks to track the world’s soil health

John Cannon 21 Jan 2026
Sulphur buckwheat seedlings at the Nupqu Native Plant Nursery in British Columbia.

Growing native plants to heal land at Indigenous owned nursery in British Columbia

Ruth Kamnitzer 21 Jan 2026

The knowledge to save coffee already exists, now it’s in one e-library

Bobby Bascomb 20 Jan 2026
Flood survivors use logs to cross a river in Batang Toru, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on Dec. 2, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara.

Indonesia sues 6 companies over alleged links to deadly floods & landslides

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Jan 2026
Loading a barge with iron ore from Simandou. Image by Paul Kagame via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Hopes and fears as Guinea exports iron ore from Simandou mines

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Jan 2026

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